The Group Musicaparole was founded in Fano-Pesaro in 1990 with the intention of playing ethnical music and creating and performing musical theatre plays, for children and young people, too.
The characteristic of the Group is that the members are at the same time players, singers, actors and authors. They have a Conservatory background but also experiences in different kind of music (chamber music, orchestra and choral groups, and so on).
The Group is composed by 5 musicians from Fano and Pesaro: Enzo Vecchiarelli (guitars, voice, bodhran and arrangements) Maurizio Mainardi (recorders and flutes) Massimiliano Poderi (violin, vielle, psaltery arc) Antonella Pierucci (celtic harps, oboe, psaltery arc) Susanna Pusineri (celtic harp and voice)
Their concert repertoiregoes from Medieval and Renaissance music to Italian and international ethnical music, especially to Celtic music.
Musicaparole plays at Events, Historical Commemorations and Festivals.
The members of the Group Musicaparole do researches for thematic concerts and hold concert-conferenceson musical subjects regarding their repertoire; they moreover make theatreworkshops and animationactivities.They are also musical consultant for music events.And then the elements of the group collaborate with other artists and authors (for hosting musical performances teatral) as musical performers and arrangers.
The music recorded by the group have often been used as soundtracks for plays, pageants, short films, documentaries, etc. ...
Among their musical theatre performances are also to be remembered the performances at Rossini Theatre in Pesaro together with Virgilio Savona: L’Operetta delle filastrocche (the Operetta of the nursery rhymes), based on Gianni Rodari’s works and Savona’s music, and La Barba del Conte (the Earl’s Beard), a musical fairy tale taken from Italo Calvino with folk music of Piemonte Region; different parodies and burlesques among which Romeo and Giulietta (Romeo and Juliet) and Vado via con i gatti (I go away with the cats) (taken from Rodari) performed with their students attending EEC Entertainer Courses at the University of Urbino; the theatre concert Il venditore di canzoni (the Seller of songs), based on ethnical music, performed at theatres (for example the Theatre of Fortune in Fano) and at open-air shows (for example in Abruzzo under the patronage of the Parco Letterario G. d'Annunzio) with changes in themes and setting; Fantasia Medievale a journey in the Middle Age; the celtic fairy tale Tam Lin - il cavaliere elfico (the Elf knight); Rinascimento fantastico with Renaissance poetry and music; the musical cabaret W la scuola – tragedia musicale da ridere, (Hurrah for the school – a funny musical tragedy) a ferocious but very comic satire on the school world.
In 2003 and in 2004 the Group worked together with Dario Fo (Nobel Prize) in the composition, arrangement and playing of incidental music (partly in the writing of texts) for the performances made by Dario Fo himself for the Carnival of Fano. Besides Dario Fo and Virgilio Savona, they have worked together with other famous artists such as Daniele Gatti, Marcello Tusco, Ferruccio Soleri, Pippo Baudo.
As theatre authors and directorsthey have won:in 2000 First prize at the National Contest for the selection of an unpublished text for young people’s Musical Theatre in Rovigo;in 2001 First Prize for the best performance at the Third Festival of Young People’s Musical Theatre in Rovigo;in 2002First Prize at the Twentieth School Theatre National Festival of Serra San Quirico.
Discography (the Group has recorded eight albums)
Celti al Teatro del Trionfo (2003) Live recorded. 19 pieces of Celtic tradition: from Ireland to Brittany , from Scotland to Wales, a journey in the musical culture of these ancient peoples.
Il Medioevo Ben Temperato (2005) 23 pieces of ancient European music where learned and folk elements, sacred and profane elements are merged and mixed up.
Ninne nanne celtiche (2006) 20 celtic lullabies from Scottish and Irish traditions.
Notturni Celtici (2007) 19 pieces from the Irish and Scottish tradition for a complete relaxation of the body and the mind. They are pure lullabies with feelings of love and serenity.
Natale (2007) 20 pieces of Christmas tradition from the Italic culture and from Francophone, Hyspanic, Anglo-Saxon and Celtic countries.
Ventitalie (2010) 20 ethnic music from the twenty Italian Regions (one for each region).
Tristano e Isotta – storia d’amore, di patria e d’onore (2010) A celtic-pop opera. The (musical) story of two famous lovers.
Atmosfere celtiche (2015) In the 18 pieces on this album are found both the popular spirit of Celtic music: a) joyful dances and the physicality of rhythm element b) refinement and spirituality represented by the most poignant and contemplative melodies with melancholy sighs and deep humanity. The meeting between the two dimensions accentuates the extraordinary character of universality of Celtic melodies that are infinitely many points of contact with the soul of any listener. Timeless because each time: Medieval and Renaissance, Baroque and classical, very old but thanks to an inexplicable alchemy, it turns out very modern. The same music through the centuries changing with the changing times and are able to renew itself decade after decade, to adapt to new tools, new technologies and new practices interpretative though never abandoning their spirit and archaic. Ancestrally close to our sensitivity, they also recognize elements of different cultures and geographically distant from each other (eastern, andean, etc ...).